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Claude Williams
jazz violinist and guitarist
United States • 1908-02-22 – 2004-04-26
Claude Williams is credited on 131 releases across 52 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2018 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
131
Pressings credited
52
Albums
7
Decades active
6
In collections
Biography
Claude "Fiddler" Williams (February 22, 1908 – April 25, 2004) was an American jazz violinist and guitarist who recorded and performed into his 90s. He was the first guitarist to record with Count Basie and the first musician to be inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
131 releases · 52 albums · active 1950–2018
- Performance · 159
- Other credits · 22
- Production · 1
Studios: The Meadowbrook · Studio Condorcet · Thunder Sound · Stadtsaal, Burghausen
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Count Basie And His Orchestra
- Various
- Count Basie
- Andy Kirk And His Twelve Clouds Of Joy
- Andy Kirk
- Jay McShann
- Andy Kirk And His Clouds Of Joy
- Count Basie Orchestra
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